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Monday, February 10, 2014

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY:http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/baker.html
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a
Director's Lunch with Peter Baker, Chief White House
Correspondent, The New York Times, in the Belfer
Center Library (L369).
Peter Baker is the Chief White House Correspondent for The New
York Times and a contributing writer for The New York
Times Magazine, responsible for covering President Obama and
his administration. Prior to joining The Times in 2008,
Baker was a reporter for 20 years at The Washington Post,
where he also covered the White House during the presidencies of
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. In between stints at the White
House, Baker and his wife, Susan Glasser, spent four years as
Moscow Bureau Chiefs, chronicling the rise of Vladimir Putin. Baker
also covered the early months of the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Baker is author of Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White
House, published by Doubleday and named one of the five Best
Nonfiction Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book
Review, a Notable Book of the Year by The Washington
Post and one of the best books of the year by National
Journal, Barnes and Noble and the Nieman Reports. He is also
author of The New York Times bestseller, The Breach:
Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton
(Scribner, 2000), and co-author, with Glasser, of Kremlin
Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution
(Scribner, 2005).
Baker is a regular panelist on PBS’s “Washington Week” and a
frequent guest on other television and radio programs. He has won
the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Coverage of the
Presidency and the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for reporting on the
White House. He and Glasser live in Washington with their
son. As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted
on a first come, first served basis. Belfer Center Lunches are
strictly off-the-record. By requesting to attend the Lunch, you
agree that you will comply with the Belfer Center's strict policy
against recording or disclosing the contents of the seminar. Your
access is conditioned on your compliance with these restrictions.
Should you violate these rules, the Center will pursue all
available legal options and you will be excluded from all future
events.